>>>>A form's buttons don;t reappear when obscured by a latter form when latter form gets closed. A thisform.refresh did not help. painting???
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>>>Could this form change SET TALK settings? Do you have thisform.lockscreen = .t. left somewhere in the code? It also could be a bad Video Card...
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>>Nope to all 3 above. I wonder if there's some other relevant setting I need to check.
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>It is hard to tell really what's wrong without seeing this effect. Does it happen everytime you invoke this second form or sporadically? If the former, what Data Session this form uses - private or public? Have you tried this project on another computer to exclude bad video driver possibility? Could be some code, which causes this problem? Do you invoke report form? If so, make sure to add NOCONSOLE clause.
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> BTW, You're not in W. Rox anymore?
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>Yes, I moved to Columbus 3 months ago. Looking for a job... Do you go to Boston User's Groups? I missed the meetings...

thanks for the suggestions, I had mentioned the CLEAR statement was the culprit. I used to go to user group in Watertown but that was when I lived in W Rox.